Word: sped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalists arrived at the zone, driving around uneventfully for more than an hour Suddenly, most of the other cars in the street sped up considerably and started passing the cab in an effort to evacuate the area. Reed glanced up and saw soldiers on top of a nearby hill He sensed trouble and ordered the driver to catch up to the rest of the traffic...
...other guys weren't hurting last night, as the slower, shorter Judges couldn't handle the Crimson offense Center Monroe Trout converted a two inch height advantage into 10 Harvard points and forward Ken Plutnicki sped past the Brandeis front line to nab 12 points on six of eight shooting. The cagers humbled the opposition on the boards 54-29 with Plutnicki's 13 leading...
Harvard junior Albert Leger won the men's cross-country race and four other Crimson athletes sped to top-10 finishes on the first day of the Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing Association Winter Carnival at Francistown, N. H. yesterday...
Ellen O'Neill, playing at Finn's center halfback spot, robbed the Big Green of a tying tally when she stopped a drive inches shy of the Crimson goal line. Minutes later. Trina Burnham, shifted to O'Neill's right halfback position, sped in front of a pass to parry another dangerous thrust...
...manicured beard, debaucher's lips and a forehead that recedes in disapproving furrows almost to the collar line, Paul Bartel looks like the last surviving member of the Preston Sturges Repertory Company. Sturges, whose spitball farces (The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) sped moviegoers giddily through World War II, might appreciate Bartel's continuance of that tradition, as actor and writerdirector, in high-camp style. His first feature, Private Parts (1973), was a Psycho drama about a winsome lad who makes love to a lifesize, water-filled, clear plastic doll in the image...